Inspirational Quotes on 1863

“Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the world—what a predicament my judges would be in, with my having only a fortnight to live, now that corporal punishment and torture is abolished. I should die comfortably in hospital, warm aad snug, with an attentive doctor, and very likely much more snug and comfortable than at home. I wonder that the idea doesn't strike people in my position, if only as a joke.”

“...They were strange and ugly and wrong and horrible, and it all began to come back to him, they were men.”

“...People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.”

“And slept like a dead pig;”